They are now understood to have gone to ground at their second home in Orlando, Florida after upping sticks from their home in Wishaw, Lanarkshire.

Now with the clock ticking to the big day that he and Emma have been planning for more than a year, Scott, who lives in Kirkintilloch, explained that he faces a battle to give his bride the occasion she deserves.

The 35-year-old said: "We are devastated. I was at work when my fiancee got a call from her dad, who saw your story, and she told me.

"We have lost over £2,000 and it's heartbreaking. I feel more for Emma, as a man I just turn up and have a wee speech to say, it's all about her that day.

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"The whole package was ordered, from table decor to the LED dancefloor, so now we're just left with tables and tablecloths from the venue."

Parents to two young children, Scott and Emma, 28, have been together for 10 years.

And, although he sympathises with the countless others who fear they have been conned by Happy Talk, panic-stricken Scott admitted that it's his own predicament that's caused sleepless nights.

"I feel for all the other people too, it's terrible, but we have to think of our own situation too. We need to try and find other people, but where do you get the money in this space of time? We're working all the hours under the sun to pay for the wedding," he commented."

"We're now left trying to find other people and get prices together, but the two of us are working and we've got two young kids, so money isn't a disposable thing.